Temperature
Global Temperatures are Soaring
- The black line shows the “long-term trend” of the “average global air temperatures” from 1880 to 2015 produced by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
- The upward trend in temperature continues after 2015.
- Below I describe how you can get the most recent graph.
- Temperatures have increased by 0.67°C per century between 1880 and 2014.
On this page:
More recent graphs: The same message
All the more recent graphs reinforce the message gained from the above 2015 graph.
See: NOAA global climate reports
The latest years here, 2014 & 2015, are the hottest.
- Each “temperature anomaly” is the temperature difference from the average temperature shown in degrees Fahrenheit.
- The average global temperature anomaly for each year is shown by a rectangle:
- The blue rectangles show temperatures below the average
- The red rectangles show temperatures above the average
- The hottest year on record was 2015. (See the right-most red rectangle on the graph.)
- The second hottest year was 2014.
Generate the latest Temperature Graph
- Go to the Global Time series page:
- https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/time-series/global
- Select Time-scale = “Annual”
- Tick “Display Trend”
- Select “trend per C
entury “ - Select Region = “Global”
- Select Surface = “Land and Ocean”
- Click “Plot”
The temperature increases are already damaging.
We are already experiencing significant impacts of this warming:
- Hotter weather with extended fire seasons
- Droughts, bush-fires and floods are more frequent and intense
- The distribution of plants and animals is shifting towards the poles,
- The planet is losing ice
- The oceans are rising faster
It is not sustainable for us to have global temperature increasing like this.
References
National Climate Data Centre (NCDC)
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Updated: 30 Jan 2019